Dear Adam, i love your treatment of people. You never lost your connection to the fans. You are really faszinated when other people are creative. This is very inspireing. It is not important how long we are cosplayers. It's all about the dedication and passion. And having fun. So you are really a rolemodel how to interact with creative fans. You are one of us. Thank you! Kind regards TLac
I would love to hear about another book recommendation from you guys! You suggested The Three Body Problem, loved it and have read the other two in the series. My personal suggestion that has stuck with me and I would recommend for the Tested crew would be The Unincorporated Man. It's a great book and has stuck with me for years. Great podcast, and keep up the great work!
Excellent stuff as always guys. On the subject of Indexing. I once spent around 6 months indexing photos and artwork and pulling apart videos into tagged and searchable bit-sized chunks for a games design company I was working for. As a designer I didn't always get arty creative projects. This particular task would have been soul destroying if it wasn't for two key things. I got to look through beautiful imagery and videos and I got to spend time with a true veteran of the company and nearly every image or video came with a fantastic story. It was a long project but it was a time that I'll not forget. The indexed system that was in place when it was done was just brilliant. Thousands of easily accessible chunks of media goodness just a mouse click away. All there and easy to get at for inclusion in any project. I think indexing and organising are things we sometimes put off but they can be fun and rewarding. I do suggest the addition of good coffee and excellent pizza. It really does help.
I still want a show that only looks at movies that came out five years before the show. meaning, that this years (2018) show could only nominate films from 2013. 2019 could only nominate 2014 films. You get the idea. That way we get a more honest result and we get rid of the BS and the hippiest trends. We only award those left standing after the dust has settled. Those films that actually did something.
It's not five year's later, but YourMovieSucks has a fantastic series of "Top 10 of 20XX" videos that doesn't come out till deep into the next year that's FULL of movies no one else considered
The Google game is called Googlewhack. Go look for a video / DVD / book by Dave Gorman called Googlewhack Adventure. It's an utterly brilliant video. It will get you in the feels whilst tickling you till you hurt from laughing.
The reason you can't do the two-term search thing anymore is that Google fudges the results to include things that only include one or the other term. To get the old behavior, you now have to put each word in quotes, like "eggs" "flight".
6:00 I once had one of those moments with a movie. I was at a friend's house, and as we were walking out of the house there was a movie on and the scene made us laugh our asses off. Years later I suddenly remembered that day and wanted to know the movie so I googled: "movie where aliens put shit in guy's mouth" And BOOM! Fire in the Sky. Found the scene on youtube and had more laughs lol
That search system reminds me of Wikipedia. Query "Kevin from the Office", and the first result is Kevin Malone's page. Query "Fat guy from Lost", and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is the first result. "Harold Abbot on Everwood", and Tom Amandes is the sixth result. Oh, the Americans was such a great show. I was surprised that Reis, Russell, and Martindale were the only ones to get Emmy nominations for acting. Frank Langella (Gabriel in seasons 3-5) and Annet Mahendru (Nina) deserved far more recognition. Spoilers: Season 4's "Chloramphenicol" is particularly a heartbreaker.
I recently saw the first "Casino Royale" movie (it was an official Bond movie while also a non-canonical spoof). There was a time when MGM and the Broccolis appeared to no longer be working together ever again on a Fleming-based film. So, there was a movie where a supervillain (you'd never guess who gets revealed to be the supervillain) starts assassinating all male superspies who at least a certain height or taller. The CIA, MI6, and KGB are getting targeted, so they ask the real James Bond (played by David Niven) out of retirement. The thing is that Bond decides to bring in decoys (other agents all codenamed "James Bond"). So Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Joanna Pettet, Dahlia Lavi, Woody Allen, Barabara Bouchet, and Terence Cooper play the 7 additional James Bonds. Orson Welles plays a henchman, and Burt Bacharach composed the soundtrack. The whole movie even holds up social politically until the end scene melee includes ninjas and "dog soldier" Native American archetypes. Not only did Baracharach and Dusty Springfield record the Oscar winning (and Grammy Hall of Famer) "the Look of Love" specifically for this movie, but when "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (the spoof that borrowed greatly from this spoof) used the "the Look of Love", they even parodied the exact scene from "Casino Royale".
I agree that Return of the King isn't the best movie in the trilogy, but I always thought that giving it the Best Picture award was more like an acknowledgement for the whole trilogy rather than that specific movie, and it felt like they made the decision to do that when Fellowship of the Ring came out.
I feel like you guys should listen to CinemaSins’s Sincast. A year or two ago, they debated the “best movies in each year we’ve been alive”, which turned into a March Madness bracket debating the best movies overall. You may not agree with the choices, but I think you’ll appreciate the discussion!
I just want to say that open back headphones (like the hd600 adam is wearing there) are not suitable for podcasts. The sound being monitored leaks from the headphone and is fed back into the microphone with a delay.
Norm even said you were judging how good the movies were, when that is not the question. Most popular... ticket sales would be a good place to start looking
I get that the Oscars need to change stuff around, but "most popular movie". Seriously? Can't see it working TBH. What metric would you use? Box office return? IMDb user rating? I'd much rather have a category for "Best Ensemble Cast" and celebrate the best film where there may be no single standout performance, but where there is great interplay between multiple characters, for example "Spotlight" or "The Post" etc. The whole being greater than the sum of its parts/performances.
I might have wandered off the subject in the following post. I use Dragon professional by Nuance as my dictation program. The problem I have is that it doesn’t seem to recognize much of my accent. Dragon Professional has difficulty recognizing many of the technical the words I wish to use. Particularly if I’m using an out of date word or phrase that more closely fits the meaning that I want to convey. What is the Elizabethan meaning of the phrase “odds botkin?” I just requested the sentence using “odds Botkin” you will notice that Botkin is capitalized because Dragon recognizes the character name Odds Botkin but doesn’t remember or know what the original phrase was or what it meant. It took me a while to figure out that Shakespeare in his early plays would use the term “God’s body” and received many complaints so he changed it to “odds botkin” as a sort of minced up way of using God’s name in a curse. A Botkin is a tool used for making holes in leather I would’ve used the term “awl” which is another term that Dragon doesn’t recognize along with “haul” which Dragon tends to print as “all.” It would it does a thorough search of my writings and comes up with a long list of words doesn’t recognize that I’ve used I’m too lazy to go through each one so Dragon will have the proper pronunciation for if or when I ever use them again.
Oh, and cut out the red carpet and the endless discussions on which actress wears the dress from which designer at the show. Gut out the synthetic laughter and delete the endless song and dance numbers. Then, only then would the awards feel less like a chore and more like a show celebrating... Youknow... FILMMAKERS...
@34:50 For the record, none of the Fast and Furious movies changed the direction of a falling tank by firing its gun. That was the A-Team. ruclips.net/video/104tQfcK1sI/видео.html
Groundhog Day 1993 - not 1988, Will. Just after that section about fact checking too... Not enough time at the Oscars to show all the categories so let's invent another (lame) category. Why not have a best stunt performer, and best stunt...
Hasn't a popular film already "won" by being popular? A "popular" award seems redundant. We already know who''s won the "popular" category. It's the one that made the most money.
if you're interested in google searches that only return one result look up Dave Gorman, an English comedian, who did a show or at least a segment based on that subject. i believe its called Googlewhack, but the things you have to search are fairly ridiculous.
Can you guys stop talking over each other? it makes doing your subtitles incredibly difficult! (Joking) (but seriously im half way through and i have been doing this for almost an hour!)
Haha best animated going to the right film? Give Satoshi Kon his Millennium Actress or Paprika awards and Shinkai his 5 Centimeters award and Takahata his Kaguya award, then we'll talk.
I was waiting for Will's superiority over Norm to show it's ugly head again. Listen to past podcasts and notice how many times Will's superiority complex comes up and he has to put down Norm for his age. Idk if he wants to feel more "adult" or he's trying to group himself with Adam because he's famous and awesome but it's pathetic. Will often agrees with Adam just so he's in yhe same camp as Adam. Typical insecure bully behavior.
You and I are likely seeing the dynamic between these three close friends differently; and as such, I will respectfully disagree with your assessment. However! Will absolutely has a superiority complex, but I think it is directed mostly at inanimate objects and really difficult levels he's beaten in video games...and probably ants.
Christopher Mcquarrie empire podcast parts , soundcloud or planetradio , don't know of an allinone download source. www.empireonline.com/movies/news/mission-impossible-fallout-spoiler-special-ft-christopher-mcquarrie-part-1/ www.empireonline.com/movies/news/mission-impossible-fallout-empire-podcast-spoiler-special-part-2-ft-team-empire/ www.empireonline.com/movies/news/mission-impossible-fallout-empire-podcast-spoiler-special-part-3/
1) I have trepidation about Patrick Stewart returning to Star Trek. I fear they are going to do to Star Trek what Disney did to Star Wars. 2) For the Oscars I would like to see a comedian that is politically incorrect. But who am I kidding, I haven't watched the Oscars in ten years. Primarily because it has become so divisively politically. 3) Titanic, IMO, is a chick flick at best, but to me a crap show. Spoiler alert, the ship sinks and he dies. EDIT: 4) Hollywood has lost relevance with me. They put out movies that constantly insult what I am. I am one who can take self deprecating humor better than most, but when every movie you go to see mocks your existence, values, ambitions, etc. you stop going to the movies. I value capitalism because it is the engine of wealth creation, but Marxist Hollywood hates capitalists. I am a christian, but Hollywood accuses us for being homophobic war mongers. My ethnicity is Celtic and German, Hollywood accuses me of have "white privilege" and being a racist. I am a cisgender Heterosexual male, But Hollywood accuses me of being misogynistic rapist. Hollywood has lost relevance with me.
Thor Ragnarok, is so bad..... the only good thing in all the movie was Hela..... the source materials Thor vs Hulk and Planet Hulk are not funny at all.. seriously.. but the average Joe doesn't care for that and the studio want to make movies that are more family friendly fun flicks, exception is Captain America Winter soldier which was more serious in tone...
Dear Adam, i love your treatment of people. You never lost your connection to the fans. You are really faszinated when other people are creative. This is very inspireing. It is not important how long we are cosplayers. It's all about the dedication and passion. And having fun. So you are really a rolemodel how to interact with creative fans. You are one of us. Thank you! Kind regards TLac
Never fails to bring a smile to my face! Keep up the good work. Love hearing the banter.
listening to you buys banter about movies is SUBLIME!
Where was I when I found out Patrick Stewart was coming back? I was playing the Start Trek Adventures Tabletop RPG with my friends.
Loved this episode!
I would love to hear about another book recommendation from you guys! You suggested The Three Body Problem, loved it and have read the other two in the series. My personal suggestion that has stuck with me and I would recommend for the Tested crew would be The Unincorporated Man. It's a great book and has stuck with me for years.
Great podcast, and keep up the great work!
Excellent stuff as always guys.
On the subject of Indexing. I once spent around 6 months indexing photos and artwork and pulling apart videos into tagged and searchable bit-sized chunks for a games design company I was working for. As a designer I didn't always get arty creative projects. This particular task would have been soul destroying if it wasn't for two key things. I got to look through beautiful imagery and videos and I got to spend time with a true veteran of the company and nearly every image or video came with a fantastic story. It was a long project but it was a time that I'll not forget. The indexed system that was in place when it was done was just brilliant. Thousands of easily accessible chunks of media goodness just a mouse click away. All there and easy to get at for inclusion in any project.
I think indexing and organising are things we sometimes put off but they can be fun and rewarding. I do suggest the addition of good coffee and excellent pizza. It really does help.
Hey Norm, Thanks for the heads up on the Empire podcast with McQuarrie!!!
I still want a show that only looks at movies that came out five years before the show. meaning, that this years (2018) show could only nominate films from 2013. 2019 could only nominate 2014 films. You get the idea. That way we get a more honest result and we get rid of the BS and the hippiest trends. We only award those left standing after the dust has settled. Those films that actually did something.
It's not five year's later, but YourMovieSucks has a fantastic series of "Top 10 of 20XX" videos that doesn't come out till deep into the next year that's FULL of movies no one else considered
The Google game is called Googlewhack. Go look for a video / DVD / book by Dave Gorman called Googlewhack Adventure. It's an utterly brilliant video. It will get you in the feels whilst tickling you till you hurt from laughing.
Such a brilliant story!! Well worth the watch!!
The reason you can't do the two-term search thing anymore is that Google fudges the results to include things that only include one or the other term. To get the old behavior, you now have to put each word in quotes, like "eggs" "flight".
To be fair with the falling tank bit, it's the A-Team movie. You get what you pay for in it.
First time I've ever seen Adam flip the bird, haha!😂😂👍
Great podcast guys. I would love to know what hardware setup you use to record it. Thanks
Wil is like “oh oh funny thing guys” and Adam is all like “ohhhhh shiny”. But Norm... Norm, you are like the ADD kid Wrangler!
6:00
I once had one of those moments with a movie. I was at a friend's house, and as we were walking out of the house there was a movie on and the scene made us laugh our asses off.
Years later I suddenly remembered that day and wanted to know the movie so I googled: "movie where aliens put shit in guy's mouth"
And BOOM! Fire in the Sky.
Found the scene on youtube and had more laughs lol
Each episode I am more and more impressed by how much Norm knows his s#it!
That search system reminds me of Wikipedia. Query "Kevin from the Office", and the first result is Kevin Malone's page. Query "Fat guy from Lost", and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is the first result. "Harold Abbot on Everwood", and Tom Amandes is the sixth result.
Oh, the Americans was such a great show. I was surprised that Reis, Russell, and Martindale were the only ones to get Emmy nominations for acting. Frank Langella (Gabriel in seasons 3-5) and Annet Mahendru (Nina) deserved far more recognition.
Spoilers: Season 4's "Chloramphenicol" is particularly a heartbreaker.
I recently saw the first "Casino Royale" movie (it was an official Bond movie while also a non-canonical spoof). There was a time when MGM and the Broccolis appeared to no longer be working together ever again on a Fleming-based film. So, there was a movie where a supervillain (you'd never guess who gets revealed to be the supervillain) starts assassinating all male superspies who at least a certain height or taller. The CIA, MI6, and KGB are getting targeted, so they ask the real James Bond (played by David Niven) out of retirement. The thing is that Bond decides to bring in decoys (other agents all codenamed "James Bond"). So Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Joanna Pettet, Dahlia Lavi, Woody Allen, Barabara Bouchet, and Terence Cooper play the 7 additional James Bonds. Orson Welles plays a henchman, and Burt Bacharach composed the soundtrack.
The whole movie even holds up social politically until the end scene melee includes ninjas and "dog soldier" Native American archetypes.
Not only did Baracharach and Dusty Springfield record the Oscar winning (and Grammy Hall of Famer) "the Look of Love" specifically for this movie, but when "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (the spoof that borrowed greatly from this spoof) used the "the Look of Love", they even parodied the exact scene from "Casino Royale".
I agree that Return of the King isn't the best movie in the trilogy, but I always thought that giving it the Best Picture award was more like an acknowledgement for the whole trilogy rather than that specific movie, and it felt like they made the decision to do that when Fellowship of the Ring came out.
Where’s the solo spoiler cast??
I feel like you guys should listen to CinemaSins’s Sincast. A year or two ago, they debated the “best movies in each year we’ve been alive”, which turned into a March Madness bracket debating the best movies overall. You may not agree with the choices, but I think you’ll appreciate the discussion!
I just want to say that open back headphones (like the hd600 adam is wearing there) are not suitable for podcasts. The sound being monitored leaks from the headphone and is fed back into the microphone with a delay.
Looking forward to the new tested series. Just the Tip.
Why does the suit behind Norm have a Camel Toe ?
Damn it, now I can't unsee that. Or look away.
Shit... I can't stop looking at it either!! Aaaarrrrgghh! LOL
Ian Clarke You either came from Adam's recent Instagram post or your comment inspired that post itself. Egg or Chicken?
Well I don't do Instagram so . . . .
How recent was that Insta post ?
Ian Clarke within 2 days. It's the post after the 'Jack White' one.
Norm even said you were judging how good the movies were, when that is not the question. Most popular... ticket sales would be a good place to start looking
Actually most of the NYC Marvel shows are shot out in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
I get that the Oscars need to change stuff around, but "most popular movie". Seriously? Can't see it working TBH. What metric would you use? Box office return? IMDb user rating? I'd much rather have a category for "Best Ensemble Cast" and celebrate the best film where there may be no single standout performance, but where there is great interplay between multiple characters, for example "Spotlight" or "The Post" etc. The whole being greater than the sum of its parts/performances.
You could play a drinking game to the amount of names they get wrong.
I might have wandered off the subject in the following post.
I use Dragon professional by Nuance as my dictation program. The problem I have is that it doesn’t seem to recognize much of my accent. Dragon Professional has difficulty recognizing many of the technical the words I wish to use. Particularly if I’m using an out of date word or phrase that more closely fits the meaning that I want to convey. What is the Elizabethan meaning of the phrase “odds botkin?” I just requested the sentence using “odds Botkin” you will notice that Botkin is capitalized because Dragon recognizes the character name Odds Botkin but doesn’t remember or know what the original phrase was or what it meant. It took me a while to figure out that Shakespeare in his early plays would use the term “God’s body” and received many complaints so he changed it to “odds botkin” as a sort of minced up way of using God’s name in a curse. A Botkin is a tool used for making holes in leather I would’ve used the term “awl” which is another term that Dragon doesn’t recognize along with “haul” which Dragon tends to print as “all.” It would it does a thorough search of my writings and comes up with a long list of words doesn’t recognize that I’ve used I’m too lazy to go through each one so Dragon will have the proper pronunciation for if or when I ever use them again.
The Fast and Furious Saga: "They are not good movies but they are great movies."
Personally I feel I learn more by listening/watching rather than reading.
Seriously? you guys just can't crowd source the indexing of the videos to the thousands of viewers who have already REWATCHED them all?
Oh, and cut out the red carpet and the endless discussions on which actress wears the dress from which designer at the show. Gut out the synthetic laughter and delete the endless song and dance numbers. Then, only then would the awards feel less like a chore and more like a show celebrating... Youknow... FILMMAKERS...
The "tank story" was the A-Team movie no?
@34:50 For the record, none of the Fast and Furious movies changed the direction of a falling tank by firing its gun. That was the A-Team.
ruclips.net/video/104tQfcK1sI/видео.html
Tiggered by them saying Biff Tanner
Groundhog Day 1993 - not 1988, Will. Just after that section about fact checking too... Not enough time at the Oscars to show all the categories so let's invent another (lame) category. Why not have a best stunt performer, and best stunt...
Everything in Coco was way too telegraphed... I spent over half the film just waiting for the movie to catch up to its own plot
Major League Baseball does video incident archiving manually, there is a big demand.
cmon guys its Biff Tannen not Tanner
Hasn't a popular film already "won" by being popular? A "popular" award seems redundant. We already know who''s won the "popular" category. It's the one that made the most money.
how many big movies were released back then, vs now? the pool is way too big now for just one best.
11:53 It's.......it's "Tannen"....
Dinoswords is the name my new band!!!
Wait... just googled it, it already is a thing...
Biggest oscar mess-up: The Lion in Winter lost the best picture oscar to Oliver. Sigh.
Wouldn't it be great if Will was just too busy to be on Tested and just never showed up again.
You guys digging castle rock
for a great spy book/ audio book Spymaster startling coldwar by Tennent H. Bagley
Yes please - that tips video would win most popular youTube film. But not best.
agree with Adam, I enjoyed GOTG2 much more than GOTG1
if you're interested in google searches that only return one result look up Dave Gorman, an English comedian, who did a show or at least a segment based on that subject. i believe its called Googlewhack, but the things you have to search are fairly ridiculous.
Can you guys stop talking over each other? it makes doing your subtitles incredibly difficult! (Joking) (but seriously im half way through and i have been doing this for almost an hour!)
Is anyone else thoroughly disinterested in Mission Impossible?
If you like Guardians of the Galaxy give Farscape a try.
Haha best animated going to the right film? Give Satoshi Kon his Millennium Actress or Paprika awards and Shinkai his 5 Centimeters award and Takahata his Kaguya award, then we'll talk.
Adam weren't u from myth busters? Yay ur from myth busters please reply thanks
I feel like Adam would like this. Someone make sure he checks out a new show called Doodle Wars online ruclips.net/video/tQm0iBhE4h4/видео.html
The Oscars' Animation category is all fucked up, The Lego Movie should have been in there.. also, La La Land is SUPER overrated..
18:41
"Him and I." Really?
I can't believe I'm writing this on the Internet in 2018, but can we get more Adam and Will bullying Norm, please?
I was waiting for Will's superiority over Norm to show it's ugly head again. Listen to past podcasts and notice how many times Will's superiority complex comes up and he has to put down Norm for his age.
Idk if he wants to feel more "adult" or he's trying to group himself with Adam because he's famous and awesome but it's pathetic.
Will often agrees with Adam just so he's in yhe same camp as Adam. Typical insecure bully behavior.
You and I are likely seeing the dynamic between these three close friends differently; and as such, I will respectfully disagree with your assessment. However! Will absolutely has a superiority complex, but I think it is directed mostly at inanimate objects and really difficult levels he's beaten in video games...and probably ants.
Christopher Mcquarrie empire podcast parts , soundcloud or planetradio , don't know of an allinone download source.
www.empireonline.com/movies/news/mission-impossible-fallout-spoiler-special-ft-christopher-mcquarrie-part-1/
www.empireonline.com/movies/news/mission-impossible-fallout-empire-podcast-spoiler-special-part-2-ft-team-empire/
www.empireonline.com/movies/news/mission-impossible-fallout-empire-podcast-spoiler-special-part-3/
Glad I'm not the only one who didn't love deadpool.
John Ulicky yes
The Americans is amazing!
Seth Mcfarlane by far was the best host ;)
Hi
search Autogenous Magic for one page of results
Ok
GOTG2 was muck
Winter soldier is over rated!!
AYYY
I was gonna check the time on my phone but A notification popped up
1) I have trepidation about Patrick Stewart returning to Star Trek. I fear they are going to do to Star Trek what Disney did to Star Wars.
2) For the Oscars I would like to see a comedian that is politically incorrect. But who am I kidding, I haven't watched the Oscars in ten years. Primarily because it has become so divisively politically.
3) Titanic, IMO, is a chick flick at best, but to me a crap show. Spoiler alert, the ship sinks and he dies.
EDIT:
4) Hollywood has lost relevance with me. They put out movies that constantly insult what I am. I am one who can take self deprecating humor better than most, but when every movie you go to see mocks your existence, values, ambitions, etc. you stop going to the movies. I value capitalism because it is the engine of wealth creation, but Marxist Hollywood hates capitalists. I am a christian, but Hollywood accuses us for being homophobic war mongers. My ethnicity is Celtic and German, Hollywood accuses me of have "white privilege" and being a racist. I am a cisgender Heterosexual male, But Hollywood accuses me of being misogynistic rapist. Hollywood has lost relevance with me.
Mission failed
Play minecraft
Rasmus Veike wow
Fifth
First
Dose it matter
Useless clutter post. Fuck off.
Almost frist
Shithead.
Thor Ragnarok, is so bad..... the only good thing in all the movie was Hela..... the source materials Thor vs Hulk and Planet Hulk are not funny at all.. seriously.. but the average Joe doesn't care for that and the studio want to make movies that are more family friendly fun flicks, exception is Captain America Winter soldier which was more serious in tone...